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Accountable public finances, Public administration reform
Protector’s non-allowed revisions – Salvation or additional damage for the state budget?
Despite warnings that the delay of court proceedings multiplies the costs that state is paying for its mistakes, Protector of Property and Legal interests files even non-allowed revisions before the Supreme Court. From a total of 94 revisions that the Protector has filed, almost half of them – 43 have been were rejected as unfounded,…
IA participated at the final regional Policy Forum within the SELDI project
Milena Milošević, our public policy researcher, participated at the regional Policy Forum on countering corruption, organised by SELDI Network in Skopje on 29-30 September. Milena spoke at the panel discussion Building Institutional Competencies and Enhancing the Efficiency of the Administration. “Montenegro might have made a greater progress in negotiation process with European Union, compared to…
Six years of prosecutorial investigation in Montenegro
Take a look at some of the interesting facts from our new research report Six years of prosecutorial investigation in Montenegro — Cooperation of Police and Prosecution:
Press release: Stop the non-transparent work of public companies
Institute Alternative (IA) has been unsuccessful for a year now in gaining insight into the business of state enterprises Last May IA has requested from 35 registered state enterprises in Montenegro, via free access to information, to access their annual reports for 2014, minutes of meetings of the Board of Directors in the same year,…
Current budgetary reserve – 60 millions out of sight
We call upon the Agency for Personal Data Protection and Free Access to Information to promptly decide upon the Institute alternative’s appeal against the Decision of the Secretariat-General of the Government from March this year, which declared confidential all information on work of the Commission for allocation of funds from budgetary reserve. According to the…
Public Administration Reform: Authorities remain silent while Jelić breaks the law
Zoran Jelić, the ruling party official, has been breaking the law for years because he worked as the advisor at the Employment Bureau of Montenegro although he was an MP of the DPS at the same time. His wife Vukica ran the Bureau. According to the Law on Civil Servants and State Employees, a civil…